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This is my blog on library and information science.
Christina K. Pikas is a science and engineering librarian in a special library as well as a doctoral student in information studies.
Any opinions expressed here may not even be her own and certainly do not represent those of any organization willing to be affiliated with her.
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Category: Information Science
How do you balance robust enterprise IT services with computer science as a research area? This post has been floating around in my head for a while - I even had this started but lost the draft in a tragic...
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Category: finding information
One of the great things about my interests overlapping computer science is that computer scientists believe in self archiving and making their work freely available on the web. The scientometric parts of IS are that way, too, but the L...
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Category: Information Science
(I'm posting things from my old blog while I'm on a much-needed vacation) This originally appeared December 21, 2007 Implications of newer models of popularization of science for science library collection development* When we look at science communication - communication...
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Category: scholarly communication
(I'm posting some classics from my old blog while I'm on a much needed vacation) This originally appeared February 26, 2006 The reference interview in a scientific research setting: question pairs establish intellectual identity (This is thinking out loud stuff...
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Category: Posts I would like to write
Is it possible or even desirable to have one search interface that serves every need? I have about 10 minutes to write this placeholder of a post. Hopefully, I'll get the opportunity to revisit this topic near and dear to...
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Category: Information Science
While I'm trying to get back on my blogging feet, here are some quick takes on things happening in library land: The kerfuffle about the institutional subscription price of Scientific American continues. For those of you joining the discussion late,...
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Category: Information Science
quality? popularity? utility? I'm pretty sure I've blogged about MESUR (a research project that studied how usage statistics - as we call them in the industry - can be a metric like citations are). I've also blogged a discussion by...
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Category: Information Science
...'cause I thought I heard of a software and I know people at x conference said and seems like.... I get this all the time. Most recently I did a pretty detailed presentation of some analysis I did. Once I...
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Category: Information Science
BTW: any half decent librarian who knows her reference collection can answer a lot of fact-type questions faster with the right books with decent indexes than with the major search engine. Yay, indexers!
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Category: Information Science
NB: this blog post is not about cold fusion! .... and is that a good or bad or both thing? Upon reading something I'd written on scholarly communication in science and blogs, a reviewer suggested I read stuff by Lewenstein. ...
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